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This book is a collection of poems that spans different styles and themes, showcasing the diversity of poetic expression.
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“Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.”
“That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.”
“And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me.”
“Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.”
“Expect poison from the standing water.”
“Mother of otherness, Eat me.”
“To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body.”
“They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.”
“A ring of gold with the sun in it? Lies. Lies and a grief.”
“I have suffered the atrocity of sunsets.”
“I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill.”
“To live at all is miracle enough.”
“Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock.”
“A dead body revenges not injuries.”
“There is no life higher than the grasstops”
“The heart lies to itself because it must.”
“Compared with me, a tree is immortal.”
“Beached under the spumy blooms, we lie Sea-sick and fever-dry.”
“The sky leans on me, me, the one upright among all horizontals.”
“Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.”
“The ache of empty arms was an old tale to you.”
“I am the one whose love overcomes you, already with you when you think to call my name.”
“And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die.”
“When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body's been.”
“I think I may well be a Jew.”
“Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light.”
“I am silver and exact.I have no preconceptions.”